Gem
Ring
29-128-2574
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2574 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1750-1899 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Ptolemy? |
| Description | Vermeule: Reddish Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Draped bust of a young man to right. The features copied from a Hellenistic portrait coin, such as one of those of the later Ptolemies. 18th or 19th century. |
| Height | 2.71 cm |
| Width | 2.06 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2574 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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